He had warned us that we may be followed so upon leaving the library we split up and took different back lanes back to his house. It was amazing! Obviously it had been put there by them earlier on, but it was an undeniable thrill to find it. He sent us off to Barry library, to the reference section to research something and when we got there, finding the correct book, there was a note slipped into the pages that gave us information. Then arrived at the correct house and were met by Alexis who had barricaded himself in and was appropriately nervous. We promptly set off across Barry to the wrong house – much to the bewilderment of Darren’s mum. ‘Dear friends, I’ve disturbed things I ought not to. It’s all a bit vague and blurred now but if I remember correctly, we were told to be at my house at mid-day and a letter was delivered. They enlisted two other friends, Griff and Richie and set up a Lovecraftian mystery. Two friends, Darren and Alexis, who were big Call of Cthulhu fans put on an event for four of us, Myself and my mates, Chris, Adrian and Sarah. No, actually, we didn’t name him)Īll this said, I did actually do some DIY roleplaying back in the day and unlike Dirk and Blythy’s mis-adventures, it was actually really bloody good.
(‘Merlin, don’t bother the elves!’) (yes my dog is called Merlin. On a more low-key level, Fools and Heroes regularly meet in Wenallt woods just up the hill from me and several times I’ve had to detour around ferocious battles when walking the dog. When I was at Blitz games, several folk there (Kaye Elling was one, I think) used to attend the Gathering up north that was a huge regular LARPing event (still is, I think). Obviously I’ve seen the piss-taking videos on Youtube (‘Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!’) but taken out of context it’s bound to look silly, so that doesn’t bother me. It always looks a bit cliquey and ‘ammy-drammy’ too which puts me off. I’ve never heard of Killer before, or more accurately I’d heard of it but didn’t know it had a name much less a formal rule set.Īs for LARPing, I’ve always been fascinated by it but too self-concious to participate. OUTRO: More details of our Patreon projects. LARPING part 2: We talk our experiences of DIY Larping in Newton Le Willows. OPEN BOX LARPing: Blythy and I have been friends for 40 years, so we celebrate with a memoir of how we met and share our thoughts on Killer, which is still available for download.įIRST LAST AND EVERYTHING: Shannon Ferguson aka Angry Monk shares the first game he played, the last game he played and the game that means everything to him. He has been working on Dice Men: Games Workshop 1975 – 1985 with Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson.
OPEN BOX (with Jamie Thomson): Features editor for White Dwarf between 1981-84, author of Fighting Fantasy books, the Way of the Tiger and Fabled Lands gamebooks. I picked up some new games along the way, including Pendragon and the new Eberron supplement for D&D (thanks to the coverage that they received on The Smart Party). INTRO: We are still recovering from a successful GROGMEET19.
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